[Coral-List] dynamics of death by heat

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 23:59:56 UTC 2020


This article, which is the popular article paired with the research
article, talks about the state of the art.  It is highly applicable to
coral bleaching, and likely other reef organisms.  It fits with the general
findings that bleaching depends on both temperature and duration ("degree
heating weeks") and prior experience.  This should be useful to those
working on bleaching and morality (two different, related, but sepeable
events).

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6508/1163

Predicting temperature mortality and selection in natural mortality in
Drosophila populations

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6508/1242

Cheers,  Doug
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The toxic effects of air pollution are so bad that moving from fossil fuels
to clean energy would pay for itself in health-care savings and
productivity gains
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c9f70ba54f&e=190a62d266>
—
even if climate change didn’t exist.  In the US alone, decarbonization
would save 1.4 MILLION lives in the US alone.  And save $700 Billion a year.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths

"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


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